The Medicinal Power of Shrubs and Trees

Through curious facts, brief botanical descriptions and useful advices this book familiarizes the reader with the medicinal qualities of about 150 ligneous and frutescent species. The book directs to the ways of collecting, preservation and use of the curative parts of the plants and includes recipes for different pains and diseases, and for preparing meals and home-made cosmetics.

Keti Ivanova was born in 1942. She graduated German philology in the Sofia University. She wrote many articles in a medical newspaper, "110 Medicinal Plants in the Kitchen" and "2000 Healing Prescriptions from All over the World". She is also a translator and an editor.